Asks about Lake Norman while surveying Florence devastation

[struggle4progress]

BY MARK PRICE
September 19, 2018 02:40 PM
Updated 4 hours 55 minutes ago

President Donald Trump asked about Lake Norman during a Wednesday visit to survey North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence flood damage ...

Lake Norman is home to Trump National Golf Club, an 18-hole golf course with “world class country club amenities,” according to its website ...

Hurricane Florence had caused 26 deaths as of Wednesday afternoon in North Carolina, and more than 1,000 roads remained closed Wednesday due to flooding, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.

Trump mentioned Lake Norman last month, when he .... called it the “largest man-made lake in the world, by far” ...

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article218666040.html

[lapfog_1]

1. This idiot is the world's largest idiot... by far

Lake Norman - 49.8 sq mi

Lake of the Ozarks - 87.4 sq mi

Table Rock Lake - 67.34 sq mi

Bull Shoals Lake - 70.55 sq mi

Aswan Lake (Egypt) - 2,030 sq mi

Lake Kariba (Zambia) - 5,580 sq mi (it is also the world's largest by volume)

so, even if Lake Norman was TEN TIMES LARGER than it is, it still wouldn't be the world's largest man made lake by surface area.

[SCantiGOP]

5. It would only be the third largest lake in South Carolina, where he was when he said this

Two lakes not far south of where he was are called the Santee Cooper Lakes. Marion is 172 sq mi and Moultrie is 94 sq mi.
Lake Murray near Columbia is 78 sq mi.
But he was right. Truth is not truth, and the numbers I got undoubtedly came from the fake news media in an attempt to make Trump look bad.

[GemDigger]

6. What do you expect from a man who thinks that

this -- is actually -------------------- this big?

[lapfog_1]

8. I think you meant

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is really "big"... like his hands are really big.

and not

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which would be "average" (according to the fake news)

[GemDigger]

10. I left it open for personal interpretation.

[lapfog_1]

11. Like a cherry stuck to the end of a very short swizzle stick

[struggle4progress]

2. White House transcript of Trump's remarks

~snip~

THE PRESIDENT: Good. Thank you very much. And how is Lake Norman, that area? How is that doing?

MS. GOOD: Good.

THE PRESIDENT: It’s doing good?

MS. GOOD: But still 10 or 12 inches of rain.

THE PRESIDENT: I love that area. I can’t tell you why, but I love that area.

MS. GOOD: It’s very nice. Thank you.

~snip~

https://mountainx.com/blogwire/white-house-transcript-of-trumps-remarks-in-eastern-n-c-today-on-florence-recovery-efforts/

[smirkymonkey]

4. Arrghhhhhh!

SUCH. A. DICK!

[unc70]

3. Just part of branding for his property

[gratuitous]

7. The creed of Needy Amin

"Yes, yes, yes, it's awful some of you died and you're homeless for the foreseeable future, but what about my golf course?"

[Demit]

9. Weird b/c wouldn't he already know? Gotten reports of any damage?

[SharonAnn]

12. It's all about him, as usual.